In 1897, German colonial authorities in Namibia created a buffer zone to protect their livestock from rinderpest. The fence, known locally as the 'Red Line,' remains a divisive topic in Namibia.

In 1968, a deadly outbreak of rinderpest, a highly contagious viral disease, also known as cattle plague, swept through the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu. The outbreak devastated the ...

Whether it begins next week, next year, or next decade, another pandemic is on its way. Researchers can’t predict precisely when or how the outbreak might begin. Some 1.6 million viruses are ...

The scientist, who would go on to win a Nobel Prize in 1905, announced the discovery of a vaccine for Rinderpest in February 1897. But, by this time, the cow plague had wreaked havoc in Rhodesia.

Recording his statement before the court of additional district and sessions judge in Kotdwar in the Rishikesh resort murder case, Dr Ravi Prakash Mishra, who had conducted the postmortem ...

Eventually, quarantines would contain the worst rinderpest outbreaks, though as recently as the 1980s Nigeria lost $2 billion to the disease. In 2011, after decades of work, rinderpest was ...

A story published in The Times about the rising number of monkeypox cases claims that smallpox is “the only disease eradicated by humans”. This is not the case, despite similar statements being made ...

Rinderpest vaccine. Between 1889 and 1897, rinderpest swept across east and southern Africa killing 90 per cent of all cattle. That was akin to the 1700 devastation in Europe where it killed ...

SARS, Vogelgrippe und Rinderpest am Stephansplatz. Aktivisten servierten in heiterer Runde Tierkrankheiten. Sie wollen auf die Entstehung und Gefahren von sogenannten Zoonosen hinweisen.

The researchers drew up a viral family tree by comparing this with 50 other virus genomes, either from recent measles cases, rinderpest or a related virus that infects sheep and goats. This dated ...

Since rinderpest’s eradication in 2011, Baron has also been sequencing rinderpest genomes as part of a “sequence and destroy” campaign. (Pirbright destroyed its final samples last June .) ...